Why organizations need cloud attack surface management

Cloud environments constantly change, expanding attack surfaces beyond traditional tools. Cloud ASM delivers continuous visibility to identify exposures, misconfigurations and risk.

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• Dave Shackleford, Voodoo Security

As more organizations move to public cloud environments, they're finding that their attack surfaces are no longer fixed perimeters but instead a constantly shifting collection of services, identities, APIs and configurations. Traditional security tools, built for more static environments, are ill-equipped to manage that level of dynamic change across products and platforms. For security teams, it's a serious problem that can leave them without the resources they need to identify, prevent and mitigate threats from actors who are more than ready to exploit any vulnerability.

Many enterprise security teams are looking to cloud attack surface management as a more appealing alternative to their traditional or legacy tools. Cloud ASM extends the principles of traditional attack surface management ...